ISilT 



GLEANINGS IN BKP: CULTURE. 



.S78 



squashes or not. It strikes at the very foundation of 

 success in almost any kind of business.' 



I Handlxwk for I.uinhernien Oo 



10 Household Conveniences 1 40 



'2 I How to Propagate and Grow Fruit, Green* I.t 



10 I How to Get Well and Keep Well iK) 



An expo.sition of the .Salisbury .system of curing di.s- 

 ease by the "lean-meat diet." 



2 I Injurious Insects. Cook 10 



10 I Irrigation for the Farm, Garden, and Orchard* 1 10 



By Stewart. This book, so far as 1 am informed, is 

 alm'o.st the only work on this matter that is attracting 

 so much interest, especially recently. I'sing water 

 from springs, brooks, or windmills to' take the place 

 of rain, during our great drouths, is the great problem 

 before us at trie present day. The book has 274 pages 

 and 142 cuts. 



7 I Market-gardening and Farm Notes 75 



By Burnett Landreth. The Kandreths are the pio- 

 neer seedsmen of .\nicrica; and the book is worth ful- 

 ly as much as we might expect it to be. We think we 

 received hints from it worth the price, before it had 

 been in our hands fifteen minutes. It is exceedingly 

 practical, and tells what has been done and what is 

 being done, more than it discourses on theor\'. 



S I Maple Sugar and the Sugar-bush** 32 



Bv Prof. A. J. Cook. This was written in the spring 

 of fS.S7 at my request. As the author has, perhaps, 

 one of the finest sugar-camps in the United States, as 

 as well as being an enthusiastic lover of all farm in- 

 du.stries, he is better fitted, perhaps, to handle the .svib- 

 ject than any other man. The book is written in Prof. 

 Cook's happy style, combining wholesome moral le.s- 

 .sons with the latest and best method of managing to 

 get the finest syrup and maple sugar, with the lea.st 

 possible expenditure of cash and labor. Everybody 

 who makes sugar or molasses wants the sugar-book. 

 It has 42 pages and .S.5 cuts. 



4 I Peabodv's Webster's Dictionar\- 10 



Over :i0,000 words and 2.50 illustra'tions. 



5 I Manures ; How to Make and How to U.se 



Them ; in paper covers 30 



K I The .same in cloth covers 65 



Covering the whole matter, and discussing every 

 thing to be found on the farm, refuse from factories, 

 mineral fertilizers from mines, etc. It is a complete 

 summing up of the whole matter. It is written by F. 

 W .Sempers. 



3 I Onions for Profit** 40 



Fully up to the times, and includes both the old 



onion 'culture and the new method. The book is fully 

 illustrated, and written with all the enthusiasm and 

 interest that characterizes its author, T. Greiner. 

 Even if one is not particularly interested in the busi- 

 ness, almost any person who picks up Greiner's books 

 will like to read them through. 



I Our Farming, by T. B. Terry** 1 .")0 



In which he tells " how we have made a run-down 

 farm bring both profit and pleasure. " 



This is a large book, 6x9 inches, 367 pages, quite ful- 

 ly illu.strated. It is Terry's first large book ; and while 

 it touches on the topics treated in his smaller hand- 

 books, it is sufficiently different so that no one will 

 complain of repetition, even if he has read all of Ter- 

 ry's little books. I should call it the brightest and 

 most practical book on farming, before the world at 

 the present day. The price is 52.00 postpaid, but we 

 have made arrangements to furnish it for only $1..50. 



We are .so sure it will be worth many times its cost 

 that we are not afraid to offer to take "it back if any 

 one feels he has not got his money's worth after he 

 has read it. If ordered by express or freight with 

 other goods, 10c less. 



1 I Poultry for Pleasure and Profit.** 10 



8 Practical Floriculture, Hender.son.* 1 10 



10 Profits in Poultrv.* 7.1 



2 I Practical Turkey-raising 10 



By Fanny Field. 'This is a 2.Vcent book which we 



offer for 10 cts. : postage, 2 cts. 



2 I Rats : How to Rid Farms and Buildings of 

 them, as well as other Pests of like Charac- 

 ter.** 15 



1 I Silk and the .Silkworm 10 



10 Small-Fruit Culturist, Fuller 1 10 



10 I Success in Market-Gardening* 90 



This is by a real, live, enterprising, successful mar- 

 ket-gardener who lives in Arlington, a suburb of Bo.s- 

 ton, Mass. Friend Rawson has been one of the fore- 

 mo.st to make irrigation a practical success, and he 

 now irrigates his grounds by means of a windmill and 

 steam-engine whenever a drouth threatens to injure 

 the crops. The book has 208 pages, and is nicely il- 

 lustrated with 110 engravings. 



10 I Talks on Manures* 1 :« 



This bosk, by Joseph Harris, i.s, perhaps, the most 

 conipreliensive'one we have on the subject, and the 

 whole matter is con.sidered by an able writer. It con- 

 tains 3()(> pages. 



7 I Ten Acres Enough 75 



2 The Carpenter's Steel Square and its I'ses 15 



10 I The New Agriculture ; or, the Waters Led Cap- 

 tive (a $1.50 book) 40 



2 I Treati.se on the Hor.se and his Diseases 10 



5 I Tile Drainage, by W. I. Chamberlain ;i5 



Fully illustrated, containing every thing of impor- 

 tance clear up to the present date. 



The single chapter on digging ditches, with the il- 

 lu.strations given by Prof. Chamberlain, should alone 

 make the book worth w'hat it co.sts, to every one who 

 has occa.sion to lay ten rods or more of tile. There is 

 as much science in digging as in doing almost any 

 thing el.se ; and by following the plan directed in the 

 book, one man vvi'll often do as much as two men with- 

 out this knowledge. The book embraces every thing 

 connected with the subject, and was written "by the 

 author while he was engaged in the work of digging 

 the ditches and laying the tiles HIMSELF, for he has 

 laid literally miles of tile on his own farm in Hud.son, 

 Ohio. 



3 I Tomato Culture , *5 



In three parts. Part first— bv J. W. Day, of Crystal 



Springs, Miss., treats of tomato culture in the South, 

 with some remarks by A. I, Root, adapting it to the 

 North. Part second — By D. Cummins, of Conneaut, 

 O., treats of tomato culture especially for canning-fac- 

 tories. Part third— By A. I. Root, treats of plant-grow- 

 ing for market, and high-pressure gardening in gen- 

 eral. This little book is interesting because it is one 

 of the fir.st rural books to come from our friends in 

 the South. 



3 I Vegetables under Glass, by H. A. Dreer** 20 



This is by a veteran in the work, full of illustrations 

 from real life, and by all odds the most valuable book 

 we have ever had for such a small price. 



3 I Winter Care of Hor.ses and Cattle '25 



This is friend Terry's second book in regard to farm 

 matters ; but it is so intimately connected with his po- 

 tato-book that it reads almost like a sequel to it. If you 

 have only a horse or a cow, I think it will pay you to 

 invest in the book. It has 44 pages and 4 cuts. 



3 I Wood's Common Objects of the Microscope**. . 47 



8 I What to Do and How to be Happj- While doing 



It, by A. I. Root 42 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, O. 



KIND WORDS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. 



J. A. Golden's article in Nov. 1st Gleanings, en- 

 titled "How and why the No-bee-space Sections of 

 Honej' bring a Higher Price," is the very best piece 

 yet printed. Circumstances in nis case will be a 

 wonderful advantage to the bee-keeping world. 



King.ston, N. Y., Nov. 8. Aaron Snyder. 



I have not been interested in bee-keeping for several 

 years, but am still a con.stant reader of Gleanings 

 for the sake of what Uncle Amos has to .say about 

 gardening and in the Home Papers. They alone are 

 more than worth the price, and are always looked for 

 and read with interest by every member of our family, 

 though the table is piled with unread papers arid 

 magazines. C. N. P'lansbt'rgh. 



Leslie, Mich., Nov. 16. 



The 3 barrels of seed potatoes (Thoroughbred, Early 

 Ohio, and W'hite Bliss) came in good shape, and I am 

 much pleased. They are the best earlj' potatoes I 

 know of. I thank you very much for .sending me 9 

 big bushels. 



Bees have done well this sea.son ; but the price of 

 hoiiev is oiilv 8cts. for the best, and it is very slow 

 sale at that. ' Thomas Oberlitner. 



Deshler, O., Nov. 1. 



There is one thing that especially pleases me in the 

 above. Our good friend calls the "11 pecks, which we 

 put in for a barrel, " nine big bushels." I suppose 

 the explanation is that so many measure up potatoes, 

 and in measuring thev .seldom get over or as much as 

 60 lbs. Our potatoes a're all weighed in .sending them 

 out, and they usually overrun the measure used for 

 measuring potatoes. 



